| Mystic Studio opens in Denison
The newest art studio in Denison, Mystic Studios, at 110 S. Houston Ave., is a gallery an art lover can browse in all day and still not see everything.Mystic Studio was established in 2000, in the Houston area with the purpose of promoting the artistic work of studio owner Joni Beamish. She started her career as a studio potter in 1998 and gradually moved into her own diverse style. Beamish said the tremendous amount of support given to the artists in the Denison area is one of the main reasons for bringing her fresh and new experience to the Denison art scene. "I am here mainly because there is a lot of support for artists here. I feel this area is going to be the next McKinney, and I wanted to get here before the rush," said Beamish. "In order to be able to afford it you need to buy now. In McKinney, the buildings are like $1 to $1.5 million.
Project Row Houses founder speaks for Architecture Lecture Series
Artist Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, will speak about his work at 6:30 p.m. April 13 in Room 458 of Louderman Hall as part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts' spring Architecture Lecture Series. The talk, titled "Toward Social Sculpture," is free and open to the public. The Architecture Lecture Series is sponsored by the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. Established in 1993, Project Row Houses is an arts and cultural community located in a historically significant inner-city neighborhood in Houston's Third Ward. Encompassing 22 now-renovated shotgun houses, the project is inspired by the work of African-American artist John Biggers — whose paintings celebrated the shotgun house — and combines aspects of neighborhood revitalization, low-income housing, education, historic preservation and community service.
willy waterton the sun times
With her comic Minnie Pearl bits, her fancy footwork and her 50,000-watt smile, it's easy to overlook how much music Linsey makes as part of this old-time country music variety show. Pianist Mel Aucoin, a regular with the Becketts in recent years, has more than four decades in the music business behind him, including a lengthy stint on the old Tommy Hunter show. He grew up in the thick of Cape Breton fiddle culture and has high praise for Tyler and Linsey and their place within the Ontario fiddle music continuum. "I'm out of breath when I'm watching those two," Aucoin said after Monday's first show. "They're as fine a fiddlers as you'll hear, wherever you go. They're as good as you're going to get. It doesn't get any better." Sometimes we forget that around these parts, where as Sun Times columnist Jim Merriam once wrote, "the first family of fiddling" is a Grey-Bruce treasure we tend to take for granted.
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Born in Aswan, Abdel Dhaher has both Nubian and Saeedi roots. Although he left Aswan as a child and came to settle in Cairo, Abdel Dhaher never really left Egypt's most magical city. “My painting style is social realism. I paint the reality of life in the South. I've loved to paint the daily life or the environment in the South ever since I was a student of Fine Arts," he says. Armed with a sketch pad at all times, Abdel Dhaher quickly draws everything he sees, a zir (water jar), a cousin feeding the chickens, another cousin feeding the ducks, his nephews' double wedding, or the belly dancer and zammar (flute player) at a wedding. Few people have heard of a Saeedi painter. It's not that Upper Egyptians aren't blessed with artistic talent. They are. It is just that those painters who originally come from Upper Egypt more often than not tend to stray away from their roots and try to become urbanized.
Dallas Seitz: Hunted - the cannibalism of colonial collectorexia
Pump House Gallery is pleased to present Dallas Seitz's first solo show in a UK public gallery, which will include a number of significant new commissioned works. Moving between the mediums of video, sculpture, drawing and photography Seitz investigates the processes of hunting and collecting as a form of colonization and obsession. Though the artist's practice is largely conceptual, much of his work originates from the personal. Often drawing on his own family, upbringing, and memories Seitz moves towards psychological and political terrains - exploring the wider motivations, intentions and implications behind the act of collecting. HUNTED (the cannibalism of colonial collectorexia) features a variety of artworks in a number of different media including films, images, handmade objects and bronze and glass sculptures.
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